After a year of regional strength, Sentinels just couldn’t seem to bring their Americas form onto the international stage with yet another 0-2 performance. Seemingly replicating their Masters Bangkok experience here at Paris.
Xi Lai Gaming, however, put forward a step into VCT 2026, with this win as they are battling records against Dragon Ranger Gaming to see who gets further in this Champions and will make it another year secured in VCT China.
happywei took the top spot of this series with 63 frags across the three maps, showing why he had eyes on him before Champions began. PlatChat, a podcast mixed with casters, ex-pros and ex-coaches, had a lot of high hopes for the sentinel player with his fragging ability in VCT China this year.
An uncharacteristic performance from zekken with a negative KD of 48/54 and having more first deaths than first kills, which in recent times has become a rarity. It seems when the team needed him the most, he couldn’t perform to his Masters Madrid level.
Sentinels have also recieved some backlash for the above tweet in where they are somewhat ‘celebrating a participation trophy’. Ex-FNATIC head coach, mini, said on his stream;
‘When I coached and I made three internationals, I was still flamed for not winning events so I don’t really understand.’
Sentinels will end this season with a strong domestic performance, but an incredibly poor international performance. With changes due to be considered, They can look ahead to the 2026 season with some sort of hope.
Xi Lai Gaming, will now go on to face off against Giant X after their loss to Paper Rex in the upper bracket for the final team in group A to be decided for play-offs.
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